Obtaining definitional clarity when dealing with the gender religion (ists) is like trying to find the gills on a chicken. But let’s look at what Genevieve Gluck has to say about the straitjacket that is conformity to gender roles and the misogyny that goes along with it. “Gender
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Dead Wild Roses: Where does Male Violence Come From?
What are the roots of male violence? We can look into how males are raised in society and the gender stereotypes we inculcate them with. Observe the list in blue. It, and similar archetypes, dominate our social discourse and structure of our societies. It is from many of these bedrock
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Struggle to Wear Pants – The Enforcement of Gender Roles.
It is important to recognize the struggles women have in our society. An easy example of the bullshit that went on was the mandatory skirt rule for women. Just amazing bullshit flying in the face of practicality – as in hey, it is minus 20 outside, NO PANTS FOR YOU!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When A Voice Tells You You’ll Never Be Enough – Mattea Kramer
Welcome to the particular mental hell that many women inhabit. In an insightful article on Tom’s Dispatch by Mattea Kramer we see how the negativity toward women in society internalizes itself and become women’s own inner self-critical voice. “Girls observe and absorb such double standards, as well as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Female Erasure – Gender
I completely need this book. Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Female Erasure, Gender, Gender Roles, Radical Feminism, Society, The Scourage of Idenity Politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The No Win Patriarchal Game for Females
http://amodollface.tumblr.com/post/100763927266/girls-born-society-girls-should-care-about For even more fun try the Virgin/Whore game, or the “what was she wearing…’ game – guaranteed to bring the yuks back to the party. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gender Roles, Growing Up Female, Patriarchal Double Binds
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Female Experience – It is Not About That I Know How to do Laundry…
The experience of society is different depending on whether you are female or male – one woman’s story. “it’s not about that i know how to do laundry. it’s that when i was four i knew how to fold clothes; small hands working alongside my mother, while my older
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Socialization & Patriarchy
Tatsuya Ishida creates the internet comic Sinfest. Sometimes his insight hits the proverbial nail on the head. Filed under: Culture, Social Science Tagged: Gender Roles, Patriarchy, Sinfest, Socialization
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender and Family Farms – I love the Smell the Patriarchy in the Morning
JSTOR Daily – News with a scholarly slant. Damn Son, I’m going to be all over that site. 🙂 From the article on Gender and Family Farms: “Scott writes that all 23 women interviewed for the paper described doing both male and female chores. Men, on the other hand, talked mostly about male labor. […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Roles in Western Society
Another bit of well crafted insight into some of the subtle rules that govern our society. Filed under: Education Tagged: Gender binary, Gender Roles, Men, Patriarchy, Women
Continue readingMelissa Fong: What the heck is a complementarist?
What the heck is a complementarist? Well I will tell you. [3] I was forced to look this up when I noticed that some of the traffic to my blog was also overlapping somewhat with people who would call themselves “Complementarians” (this is probably due to my awesome Feminist rants
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